Tuesday, November 24, 2009

San-Hsin Earns First HS Tourney Championship.....

HS:*San-Hsin defeated Ku-Pao 3-1 in the Care Cup HS championship game to earn its first ever HS tourney championship (San-Hsin first founded its baseball team in June of 2003). SP Ting-Hao Lin (W, 5 IP, 1 R) combined with ace Kuo-Hua Lo to shut down the potent Ku-Pao bats.

Cheng-Kung HS shut out Ping-Zhen HS 3-0 in the 3rd place game.

*Pei-Nan of Taitung County won the LL division of the Care Cup championship , defeating its opponent 18-3 4 inning affair in the championship game.

*Shun-Chung Yang of Da-De HS hit the first HR (1-2, 3 RBI) of the Wood Bat Tourney. He helped his team to a 8-1 win on the 23rd. Despite the victory, Da-De HS (1W - 2 L in the preliminary round) did not advance to the next stage (Round 1) of the tourney.

The 16 teams participating in the first round (11/24-11/29) include:

1)Kao-Yuan HS

2)Tainan Marine Vocational HS

3)Tung-Der HS

4)Chuen-Chow HS

5)San-Min HS

6)Hua-Te HS

7)Hualien PE HS

8)Tao-Yuan HS

9)Yi-Feng HS

10)San-Hsin HS

11)Hsin-She HS

12)Da-Li HS

13)Cheng-Kung HS

14)Tung-Shih HS

15)Chia-Yi HS

16)Shan-Hua HS

NPB:

Chih-Lung Huang press announcement pic

Huang's agent, Jerry Sung made a few interesting comments to the news press. He reported that Huang's highest MLB offer was $175 K (news reports are now stating that CL Huang received an initial ~ $226K signing bonus from the Giants). Sung also stated that Huang is only ~ 80% recovered from a previous injury resulting in his fb losing a few ticks (~90 mph).